07029Harrison, New Jersey

Area Profile

Income, jobs, climate, physical risk and development data for ZIP code 07029.

59out of 100
Area Score
Bottom 47% of 5,298 profiles measured

How we calculate this

How this area ranks
OpportunityTop 12% of 6,210 ZIP areas measured76
Schools2549th of 4,422 ZIP areas measured46
GrowthTop 18% of 5,428 ZIP areas measured68
Housing affordability6011th of 6,685 ZIP areas measured47
ClimateTop 48% of 6,789 ZIP areas measured71
Physical resilience5164th of 6,709 ZIP areas measured29
AccessTop 15% of 6,791 ZIP areas measured99
Economic stabilityTop 45% of 6,742 ZIP areas measured63
The quick read

07029 ranks in the top 12% of published ZIP profiles for employment opportunity, with unemployment at 4.1% and median household income of $88,333.

Buying strains local incomes far more than renting does — the median home is 5.7 times median household income, against a historic benchmark near three — while rent takes 30% of it.

Physical-risk exposure is above the national median, driven mainly by inland flooding, earthquake and coastal flooding.

At a glance

Population
22,866
2024 ACS 5-Year
Median household income
$88,333
Top 28% nationally
Density
17,402/sq mi
1.3 sq mi of land
Median age
34.0
2024 ACS 5-Year
City
Harrison
New Jersey
Metro area
New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ
Nearest major airport
EWR
4 mi · Newark Liberty Intl
Median home value
$499,600
2024 ACS 5-Year

Jobs & opportunity

Unemployment of 4.1% is lower than 65% of the 6,544 measured US ZIP areas.

Employment grew 1.6% over the past year, to 408,579 employed residents.

48% of adults hold a four-year degree, higher than 86% of measured US ZIP areas.

MetricValueCompared nationallySource period
Median household income ±$13,132$88,333Top 28%of 31,2952024 ACS 5-Year
Per capita income ±$3,997$48,577Top 22%of 32,8222024 ACS 5-Year
Poverty rate14.9%Top 32%of 32,9702024 ACS 5-Year
Average commute42.5 minTop 5%of 32,8872024 ACS 5-Year
Bachelor's degree or higher48.2%Top 14%of 33,1932024 ACS 5-Year
Employment408,579Top 14%of 6,544June 2026
Employment change (3 years)1.6%Top 29%of 6,542June 2026
Employment change (year over year)1.6%Top 7%of 6,544June 2026
Labor force425,870Top 14%of 6,544June 2026
Labor force participation73.6%Top 8%of 33,2522024 ACS 5-Year
Mean annual wage$86,310Top 13%of 6,0722025 OEWS
Median annual wage$61,430Top 15%of 6,0722025 OEWS
Unemployment change (year over year)-0.8%Bottom 9%of 6,544June 2026
Unemployment rate4.1%Bottom 35%of 6,544June 2026
Median household income, successive ACS releases
202120222023202488k68k
Each point is a separate five-year estimate, most recently $88,333 in the 2024 ACS 5-Year. Consecutive releases share four years of sample, so AreaProfile shows them as a record of successive estimates and does not compute a year-over-year change from them.
Largest occupations — New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ
OccupationPeople employedMedian annual wage
Home Health and Personal Care Aides644,700$39,680
Retail Salespersons202,080$38,280
Registered Nurses197,740$119,720
Janitors and Cleaners, Except Maids and Housekeeping Cleaners183,030$42,840
General and Operations Managers177,850$157,000
Cashiers173,830$35,950

Occupational employment and wages are published for metropolitan areas rather than for individual cities or ZIP areas, so these describe the wider labor market this location sits in. 2025 OEWS, U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.

The Bureau of Labor Statistics does not publish labor-force data for ZIP areas. This is the figure for Harrison, NJ, the city containing this ZIP code.

13% of students met the state standard in mathematics and 37% in reading, across the schools here that reported results.

There are 12.8 students for every full-time teacher, fewer than in most measured places.

Public schools
6
2024-25 school year
Students per teacher
12.8
across all schools here
Math proficiency
12.9%
Bottom 35% in New Jersey
Reading proficiency
37.1%
Bottom 38% in New Jersey
SchoolDistrictStudentsPer teacherMathReading
Harrison High SchoolHarrison Public Schools79515.9
Washington Middle SchoolHarrison Public Schools46612.912%42%
Kennedy Elementary SchoolHarrison Public Schools33013.2
Lincoln Elementary SchoolHarrison Public Schools3069.312%27%
Hamilton Intermediate SchoolHarrison Public Schools29510.917%44%
East Newark Elementary SchoolEast Newark School District17612.610%30%

85.2% of students here are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. That describes the circumstances families arrive with rather than how the schools perform, which is why AreaProfile shows it and does not score it.

Public schools only, from the NCES Common Core of Data. Schools are placed by ZIP code, so this is which schools are in this place rather than which one a particular address is zoned for — district boundaries do not follow municipal ones, and enrollment zones change. Fully virtual schools are excluded: they enroll students from across the state while reporting one administrative address, and counting them here would describe a school population this place does not have. The assessment covers grades 3 through 8, so a high school shows no proficiency figure — a dash in those columns means the test was not given at that school, not that it performed badly. Proficiency is measured against New Jersey’s own standard, so it compares cleanly within the state and only broadly against other states; AreaProfile therefore ranks it within state. The directory is current, while the proficiency figures are from the last school year with national coverage before the pandemic interrupted testing.

Housing & affordability

How it’s calculated →

Prices for everything a household buys run about 13% above the national average, on the Bureau of Economic Analysis index. Housing drives most of that difference.

Median rent of $2,195 takes 30% of median household income, below the 30% threshold at which a household is considered cost-burdened.

A median home costs 5.7 times median household income here, well above the historic benchmark, at a level conventionally described as seriously unaffordable.

Cost of living
112.6

Prices here run about 13% above the national average. The spread between places is driven mostly by housing — goods vary far less — and this excludes taxes.

Rent as a share of income
29.8%
Below the 30% cost-burdened threshold
Home price to income
5.7×
median home value ÷ median income
Median gross rent
$2,195
2024 ACS 5-Year
Median home value
$499,600
2024 ACS 5-Year
MetricValueCompared nationallySource period
Cost of living index112.6Top 14%of 6,0712023
Home price to income5.66Top 12%of 30,4042024 ACS 5-Year
Homeownership rate21.8%Bottom 2%of 32,9102024 ACS 5-Year
Housing units ±52910,888Top 15%of 33,7722024 ACS 5-Year
Median gross rent ±$91$2,195Top 5%of 26,6182024 ACS 5-Year
Median home value ±$47,660$499,600Top 13%of 30,9412024 ACS 5-Year
Rent as a share of income29.8%Top 6%of 26,4702024 ACS 5-Year
Vacancy rate6.4%Bottom 30%of 33,0282024 ACS 5-Year

Both affordability measures come from the same ACS release as the income they are compared with, so the comparison is like for like. They describe housing cost against local earnings and are not a cost-of-living index — transport, groceries, healthcare, insurance and taxes are not included, and a place can look affordable here and still be expensive to live in for reasons this does not capture.

Growth & development

How it’s calculated →
Development Momentum
68/ 100
Top 18% of 5,428 published city profiles

An AreaProfile calculation combining permit volume per resident, its direction over one and three years, population change and employment growth. Permit volume alone is not the measure.

At 4.4 permitted units per 1,000 residents, building activity is above the median for measured US ZIP areas.

Units permitted
90
12 months ending July 2026
Per 1,000 residents
4.4
Top 35% nationally
Year over year
+80%
vs the prior twelve months
Multifamily share
55.6%
units in 5+ unit buildings

The Building Permits Survey is not published for ZIP areas. This is the figure for Harrison, NJ, the city containing this ZIP code.

Weather & climate

6 of the twelve months have a normal average temperature between 55°F and 80°F. July averages a high of 87°F and January a low of 26°F.

Normal annual precipitation is 46.6 inches, including 31.5 inches of snow.

Air quality measures a median index of 41, in the Good band, and about 3 days a year pass 100, the threshold at which the air is unhealthy for sensitive groups.

10°30°50°70°90°JFMAMJJASOND
Solid line: normal daily high. Dashed line: normal daily low. 1991-2020 normals from NOAA station NEWARK INTL AP, 4.3 miles from this location.
Precipitation
JFMAMJJASOND4.7"
Normal monthly precipitation, in inches.
MetricValueSource period
90th percentile air quality index64.02024 calendar year
Annual precipitation46.6"1991-2020 Normals
Annual snowfall31.5"1991-2020 Normals
Average January low26°F1991-2020 Normals
Average July high87°F1991-2020 Normals
Comfortable months61991-2020 Normals
Days above AQI 10032024 calendar year
Median air quality index41.02024 calendar year
Seasonal temperature swing45°F1991-2020 Normals
Air quality
Median air quality index
41
Good on a typical day
Worst tenth of days
64
90th percentile index
Days above 100
3
unhealthy for sensitive groups

A comfortable median and a bad tail are different problems. Wildfire smoke and summer ozone show up in the worst tenth of days, not in the middle of the year.

Climate figures are thirty-year normals, not current conditions. They describe what a typical year looks like rather than what the weather is doing today. Air quality is measured rather than modelled, by EPA monitors, and published by county only where a monitor sits — roughly half the counties AreaProfile publishes have one, and the rest show nothing rather than an estimate. Air masses are regional, so a county reading describes the air over a place reasonably well, but it is still the county reading.

Physical risk

29 / 100
Physical resilience

The hazards accounting for most of this area's expected annual loss are inland flooding, earthquake and coastal flooding.

Inland floodingElevated
EarthquakeModerate
Coastal floodingElevated
HurricaneModerate
DroughtModerate

Low or minimal exposure: heat wave, strong wind, winter weather, cold wave, tornado, lightning, hail, ice storm, landslide, wildfire.

Hazard ratings are AreaProfile calculations derived from the FEMA National Risk Index v1.20.0 (December 2025). FEMA publishes at county level. ZIP values are the land-area-weighted mean of the counties the ZIP Code Tabulation Area intersects. Expected annual loss is not allocated below county level. FEMA does not endorse this presentation. Higher physical resilience means lower exposure.

These are deaths, not offences — they say nothing about burglary, theft or assault.

Hudson County records 1.7 homicide deaths per 100,000 residents a year, lower than most counties measured. The CDC does not publish this below county level.

Drug overdose deaths run at 12.0 per 100,000 residents in Hudson County.

Homicide
1.7
per 100,000 residents · under 10 deaths
Firearm deaths, all intents
1.4
per 100,000 residents · under 10 deaths
Drug overdose
12.0
per 100,000 residents · under 10 deaths
Suicide
6.5
per 100,000 residents · under 10 deaths

Firearm deaths count every intent together, and nationally the majority are suicides rather than homicides. The two columns overlap and should not be added.

Age-adjusted rates from provisional death certificate records, published by the CDC for Hudson County as a whole — these rates are not published below county level. A county can hold both a dense city centre and a suburb whose experience of it is nothing alike, so this describes the county around 07029 rather than 07029 itself. That is why AreaProfile shows these figures and does not put them in the Area Score. Where fewer than ten deaths were recorded the count is suppressed at source, and a rate built on single figures moves sharply between releases. What this measure has that reported crime does not: a death certificate is filed whether or not the local police agency submitted a return that year, so the figures stay comparable between places and over time.

What this profile does not cover

Three things people look for are missing from every AreaProfile page, and each is missing for a reason rather than by oversight. The Area Score is calculated without them and the weighting is documented on the methodology page.

Reported crime
Offences reported to police are published by department rather than by town, and only where a department reported every month of the year. No municipal department reports for this place — many smaller communities are policed by the county — so there is no figure to show. A partial year is never scaled up to look complete, and arrest counts or news volume are never substituted for it.
Taxes
Taxes are not published: no source covers them nationally with a method open enough to check. Cost of living now is — the index above is the Bureau of Economic Analysis price parity for this area — but it is a price level for all consumption rather than a budget for a household, its spread is driven mostly by housing, and it excludes taxes. Housing affordability is computed separately from rent, price and income, because that answers a narrower and more actionable question. Nothing here is individualised tax advice.
Anything about a specific address
Every figure describes an area, not a street or a house. School attendance zones, insurance pricing and the character of a neighbourhood all vary within the places measured here.

Access

5 major airports lie within 100 miles, the nearest 4 miles away.

AirportCodeDistanceLongest runway
Newark Liberty IntlEWR4 mi9,999 ft
John F Kennedy IntlJFK21 mi14,511 ft
New York Stewart IntlSWF53 mi11,817 ft

Airport identity, position and runway data come from the FAA. “Major airport” is an AreaProfile classification — a public-use civil airport with a paved runway of at least 8,000 feet — not an FAA hub designation. Distances are straight-line, not driving distance.

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Data & methodology

Used forSourceSource periodUpdated
AccessFederal Aviation Administration
Airports (NASR) — Aeronautical Data Delivery Service
NASR current cycle28-day NASR cycle
Physical riskFederal Emergency Management Agency
National Risk Index
National Risk Index December 2025 (v1.20.0)Periodic dataset versions (v1.20.0 current)
ClimateNOAA National Centers for Environmental Information
U.S. Climate Normals 1991–2020 (Monthly)
1991-2020 NormalsEvery ten years (next release follows the 2001–2030 period)
HousingU.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis
Regional price parities and county personal income
2023Annually, each December
JobsU.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
Local Area Unemployment Statistics
June 2026Monthly
JobsU.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics
2025 OEWSAnnual (spring release)
DemographicsU.S. Census Bureau
Population Estimates Program
July 1, 2024 estimateAnnual (vintage released each spring)
Demographics, Housing, Income, JobsU.S. Census Bureau
American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates (Table-Based Summary File)
2024 ACS 5-YearAnnual (5-year estimates released each December)
DevelopmentU.S. Census Bureau
Building Permits Survey
12 months ending July 2026Monthly, roughly three weeks after the reference month
safetyU.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Health Statistics
Provisional county-level mortality by intent
April, 2025 to March, 2026Quarterly, with a rolling twelve-month window alongside complete calendar years
schoolsU.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics
Common Core of Data and EDFacts assessments
2019-20 school year; 2024-25 school yearDirectory annually; assessment results as EDFacts releases them
ClimateU.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Air Quality System
Daily Air Quality Index by county
2024 calendar yearAnnually, once a calendar year is complete

Profile recalculated August 30, 2026. Recalculation is not the same as new source data — each figure above shows the period its source actually covers. Read the full methodology or browse every source.

07029 vs Harrison

How this ZIP area compares with Harrison as a whole. Both figures come from the same ACS release, so the comparison is like for like.

07029
Harrison
Median household income
$88,333
vs
$93,013
Per capita income
$48,577
vs
$51,945
Population density
17,402/sq mi
vs
16,820/sq mi
Median home value
$499,600
vs
$505,800
Median gross rent
$2,195
vs
$2,226
Homeownership rate
21.8%
vs
21.1%
Bachelor's degree or higher
48.2%
vs
50.7%
Poverty rate
14.9%
vs
11.8%
Median age
34.0
vs
33.8

Some demographic statistics use Census ZIP Code Tabulation Areas, which approximate but do not exactly match USPS ZIP delivery geography. See the methodology for how AreaProfile maps between them.